Genepesca

First dive of the season is always quite critical. The equipment must be tested: BCD, regulators, scuba, computers, etc. but above all finding assets, aquatic skills and physical condition. In practice it is training to then increase the objectives we try to achieve. For these reasons we try to immerse ourselves in a known place where we can find ...

High risk scuba diving

Deep scuba diving using compressed air is definitely to be considered a high-risk dive. All international diving organizations recommend limiting diving with compressed air to -40 meters of depth to avoid incurring what is called nitrogen narcosis. Compressed air is denser as the depth increases, and consequently greater breathing effort is required which could lead to breathlessness ...

Common northern comb jelly - Bolinopsis infundibulum

Decompression is a boring phase of diving but from a certain point of view it can also be interesting if, in addition to looking at the computer, which marks the times and stages of depth, we take a look around in the deep blue. Common northern comb jelly Ctenoforo tentacolato Bolinopsis infundibulum ...

Salpa maxima

Salpa maxima also arrived in the upper Tyrrhenian Sea or lower Ligurian Sea, that is, in the waters of Livorno and the province where we often dive. It is a Tunicate; at first sight it looks like a cross between a fish and a jellyfish but it is neither, it is actually a transparent invertebrate belonging to the order of the Salpidae subphylum Tunicata ....

Decompression of a diver

Underwater decompression consists of a series of steps or stops at a certain depth that the diver must undertake to desaturate his body ...